On October 2, 2003 04:36 pm, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:32, Jesse Kline wrote: > > i'm assuming i can do this through the bios? or do i have to make some > > software changes as well? what is the problem that your having with > > libdvdcss2? i found a suse rpm and it installed fine. > > Enable it in your BIOS for starters. Then your kernel needs to have DMA > enabled as well. I assume yours does, but in case it doesn't, compile a > new kernel. DMA is under "ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support" --> "IDE, ATA and > ATAPI Block devices" --> "Generic PCI bus-master DMA support" option, as > well as "Use PCI DMA by default when available" option. > > But you probably don't have to deal with this. A good distribution > (considered good IMO anyway) has DMA enabled already.
I agree, I always have both of those options enabled myself since I know my hardware works fine with DMA, however some kernels might not have the DMA by default option enabled. If that is the case for you Jesse, take a look at the hdparm manpage to see how to enable DMA manually, if it works you can add the command to one of your init scripts to enable the settings permanently. ~Scott
